Construction students tour hospital

Thirty-five students and staff members from the Lincoln High School Engineering and Construction Academy recently toured the $900 million California Health Care Facility on Arch Road in southeast Stockton.

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Posted Nov. 1, 2012 at 12:01 AM

Posted Nov. 1, 2012 at 12:01 AM

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Thirty-five students and staff members from the Lincoln High School Engineering and Construction Academy recently toured the $900 million California Health Care Facility on Arch Road in southeast Stockton.

The site tour was sponsored by prime contractors Clark-McCarthy and Hensel-Phelps, and the local civil engineering firm of Kjeldsen, Sinnock & Neudeck Inc.

The tour included a 30-minute classroom presentation that provided the students with background information on the project, including the project's history, interesting facts and figures about this massive project, and a brief safety meeting.

The classroom session was followed by a 90-minute site tour where the students got to see first-hand the progress of construction on the central plant, a housing unit and a guard tower. After the site tour, Clark-McCarthy and Hensel-Phelps hosted a pizza lunch for the students.

The Lincoln High School Engineering and Construction Academy is a partnership among Lincoln Unified School District, the building trades, the construction industry and the community. The purpose of the academy is to provide high school students with a solid academic foundation in an authentic learning environment that leads to careers in the construction trades, or allows them to continue their education at colleges and universities in pursuit of degrees in engineering, architecture, construction management and related fields. The foundation of the academy is to provide hands-on and project-based learning that is integrated throughout the entire academic core curriculum. The program is led by Jeff Wright, California Teacher of the Year in 2001.